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Hector Barbera gets driving license suspended and 1200 euro fine
The story of Hector Barbera being involved in a DUI and whether he was behind the wheel when the police stopped him or if it was his friend that was driving who was supposedly drunk as a skunk under the strict Spanish law, we admit is rather confusing especially following his press release stating that he wasn’t three times over the legal limit, but it was his friend.
However, for the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Comunitat Valenciana (Valencia Superior Court of Justice) it wasn’t confusing as Traffic Court no. 11 decided to fine Barbera 1,200 euros and suspended his driving license for ten months.
For someone who stated that he was barely over the limit getting your license suspended for 10 months is a pretty drastic measure when they usually dock points from your permit.
Source | as.com
Hector Barbera arrested for DUI
Pramac Ducati’s new rider Hector Barbera was reportedly arrested early Saturday morning for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Barbera, according to the Spanish press was stopped by the Valencia police while driving a friend’s Opel Astra at high speed (Barbera’s Ferrari had been rear ended earlier that evening) jumping red lights and engaging in a sort of ‘race’ with Porsche Cayman driven by another friend.
When the police stopped the two cars at the entrance of a discoteque where both drivers were given breathalyzer tests and Barbera’s blood alcohol content tested three times the level (0.60 g/l) and he was arrested, while the other driver tested positive but within the law (0.25 g/l) and was fined with points deducted from his license.
Barbera had this following press release issued to clarify his position.
Given the information appearing in various media about the arrest of Hector Barbera on Friday night January 6, the rider would make the following clarifications:
“On Friday night I celebrated one last family Christmas dinner also attended by several friends with whom we later left by car for Valencia. I was traveling as a passenger in a Opel Astra with a friend, who was stopped for a breathalyzer test and he exceeded the limit allowed by law. It was he, not I, who tested at 0.60.
In that situation, because I had only had a drink of alcohol, the police suggested I take the car and I took the test and resulted 0.32 and 0.28 in a period of 20 minutes.
I would have been irresponsible to drive, but having only drunk one glass I wasn’t feeling intoxicated. I’d like to apologize to my team, my sponsors and MotoGP fans for what happened. As a rider I should set an example and I can guarantee that this will never happen again. I’m sorry.”
Source | motocuatro.com
Hector Barbera undergoes food intolerance testing
Nutrition and diet plays a big part of how a rider performs today. MotoGP riders have to be light (both James Toseland and Ben Spies decided to lose 5kg when they entered the MotoGP class) that helps save something on those 21 liters that the bikes consume and strong enough to handle the G forces under braking.
Dani Pedrosa suffers from gluten intolerance and stays away from anything that contains wheat, while Jorge Lorenzo eats whole grain Kamut pasta with vegetables. Casey Stoner discovered he suffered from lactose intolerance after spending half of the 2009 season sick and eats more carbs, proteins and vegetables and avoids any dairy products. Valentino Rossi likes red meat and pasta, while Nicky Hayden favours fish. We gleaned the riders dietary habits during a race weekend from hospitality cooks, like Ivan from Alpinestars, Omar from Honda, Renzo from Yamaha and Marco from Ducati.
Even Pramac Ducati’s Hector Barbera decided to review and better his diet and recently underwent food intolerance tests to find out what to cut out of his eating habits to help his diet and training regime which will avoid stomach problems and give him more energy and strength.
Barbera will be working under the guidance of CEVEP (Centro Valenciano de entrenamiento para Pilotas) trainer Rafa Olcina, who also trains Sergio Gadea and 125cc World Champion Nico Terol.
Source | motocuatro.com
Hector Barbera signs with Pramac Ducati
When Aspar Martinez announced that their deal to continue to field a Ducati fell through and they would be fielding a CRT bike in 2012, we imagined that Hector Barbera didn’t exactly take it very well, infact the Spaniard started to look for another ride and he found it with the Pramac Ducati team.
With Loris Capirossi retiring and Randy de Puniet having had horrible season and being cut loose (De Puniet has yet to announce where he’s going - more or likely back to LCR Honda) Pramac Ducati looks, at the moment like they’ve decided to field only Barbera next season.
During tomorrow’s and Wednesday’s post season test at Valencia, Barbera, along with all the other Ducati riders will be testing the GP0 or laboratory prototype, as Ducati’s Filippo Preziosi calls it, which will have a full twin spar aluminium frame, but it will not be the actual bike that will race next season.
Héctor Barberá said,“This will be my third year riding a Ducati and I want to thank the Pramac Racing Team and Paolo Campinoti who have given me this opportunity. In the last two seasons I have not achieved the results I wanted and I hope that now, after the experience I have gained, I can get better results. Both I and Pramac Racing have high aims. I am coming from one of the hardest moments of my career and I want a change. Ducati is working hard, this was a difficult year but I am sure that with the Test on Tuesday and Wednesday and especially with the winter break, where they will have time to work, they will be able to give us a very competitive bike at the beginning of next season.”
Hector Barbera to return to action at Sepang
Hector Barbera is ready to return to action in the upcoming Sepang GP. The Spanish rider who fractured his collarbone in a high speed crash during the Motegi race and missed the Phillip Island round, admitted that he’s still not 100% fit, but he’s going to ride in the hot and humid Malaysian climate.
Barbera is set to leave the Mapfre Aspar team after spending his first two years in MotoGP with the squad, and is expected to be the sole rider for Pramac Ducati next season. The Spaniard is leaving after Aspar announced he would be fielding a 1000cc CRT bike following Ducati’s incomprehensible decision not to lease the team a GP12 in 2012.
Here’s what Barbera said regarding his return.
“I have not stopped working ever since I left the Hospital USP Dexeus. The crash in Japan was pretty nasty and it was a shame that I got hurt but when these things happen you just have to deal with it in the best way you can. At first I was really upset and in a lot of pain but little by little I have been able to recover and I want to thank Dr. Xavier for the perfect job he has done on me. I also want to thank my physiotherapist Jordi Reig for his help because without him such a swift recovery would not have been possible. Ever since I left the hospital I have been in Alcoy with my physio, doing two sessions a day and working extremely hard to be in Malaysia in the best possible shape. I know I won’t be at 100% but I am keen to give my best and return to the good form we were showing before the injury.”
Damian Cudlin to sub for Hector Barbera, Ivan Moreno replaces Julian Simon
Aspar Martinez will have his hands full, as he’ll have two substitute riders for the upcoming Australian GP at Phillip Island, Damian Cudlin has been confirmed and will be subbing for Hector Barbera who underwent collarbone surgery just yesterday, while Ivan Moreno will be replacing Julian Simon who is still recovering from his leg surgery, for both the Australian and Malaysian rounds.
This will be Australian’s second appearance in MotoGP after replacing Loris Capirossi at Motegi and where he’d like to make up the fact that he lost the front of GP11 and crashed out of 12th when he had with only eight laps to go.
This is a fabulous opportunity, and frankly I’m even struggling to believe it. For me it’s an honor to race in MotoGP, the best world championship, and even more wearing the colors of a team like Mapfre Aspar Team. My first experience was unforgettable in Japan and now, after just two weeks, I have another chance. Just last year I had the opportunity to race in the Australian GP, but in the intermediate class. I am very happy, I feel very lucky and I want to take advantage of every minute of this experience. The level of competition is very high, I realized that at Motegi. Thanks to that experience I’ll be at Phillip Island with a greater level of preparation, and since I already know the track, I will address the weekend with more confidence, “ said Cudlin.
While Moreno who hails from the CEV Moto2 championship said, “I am thrilled and very excited about this opportunity! That a team like the Aspar Team has chosen me makes me very proud, but even more so because it is to replace a great world champion like Julito. I want the team to know that I really appreciate it and I take the opportunity to send a big hug to Simon, whom I’ve already called to wish the best that he’s 100% again soon. I’ve never had the chance to ride at any of the circuits, but I’ve played them many times on the PlayStation and I think they are circuits where I will feel very comfortable, they are fast and technical, which is what I do best. My goal is to learn everything I can from this experience and make the most of it. I will do everything possible to achieve good results, but what matters most to me is that the team will be left with a good impression of my work. I think if I can do that, I will have used this opportunity as best as possible.”
Hector Barbera to miss Australian GP
Héctor Barberá underwent a two and half hour surgery to fix his fractured right clavicle following his high speed (200km) crash at Motegi.
The Spaniard was operated on by Dr, Xavier Mir at the Clínica USP Dexeus in Barcelona where his collarbone was plated and screws were inserted to stabilize the multiple fractures and will be allowed to leave the clinic within 24 to 48 hours and since his rehabilitation can start only in five days, it will rule him out of next weekend’s Australian GP at Phillip Island.
Damian Cudlin has been tipped to sub for Barbera after he replaced injured Loris Capirossi at Motegi, but since Aspar Martinez has a penchant for Spanish riders and giving the opportunities, we could see someone else besides the Australian debut on the Ducati GP16.
Hector Barbera confirmed with fractured collarbone, Australian GP in doubt
Hector Barbera’s Motegi race ended on lap 2 at turn 12 when he lost the front of his Aspar Mapfre Ducati and crashed. Unfortunately the Spaniard has been diagnosed with fractured right collarbone, which puts his partecipation at Phillip Island in two weeks time now in doubt.
As the rider lost consciousness following the crash, the circuit doctors decided to airlift him to the Dokkyo hospital in Mibu, where a CAT scan confirmed that his collarbone was fractured. Barbera will be required to a stay in the hospital between 24 and 48 hours.
Aspar Racing riders take a field trip to a nuclear power plant
Almost every rider in the GP paddock has more or less decided to go to Motegi (of their own free will?) and since knowing about radiation, nuclear plants isn’t part of a professional rider’s cultural baggage, Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez decided to qualm his teams fears by taking several members on a day field trip to the Cofrentes nuclear power plant in Spain.
MotoGP’s Héctor Barberá and 125cc riders Nico Terol and Adrián Martín were present, and everyone got a lesson on the inner workings of a nuclear plant and were told by the plant’s experts why there is no health risk involved in travelling and staying in Japan and everyone got to ask questions so any last doubts and fears could be finally laid to rest ahead of the Japanese GP.
Field trips just like in junior high …
Source | asparracing@facebook.com
Hector Barbera may have to skip Estoril test, too
Hector Barbera’s Estoril race lasted only four corners into the first lap, when the Mapfre Aspar rider suddenly crashed out due to the usual cold tire syndrome and was left lying breathless in the gravel pit, unaided at first by a corner marshal who preferred to pick up his Ducati GP11.
Barbera seemed okay when he returned to his garage and stated that he hadn’t been injured, but a subsequent visit to the Clinica Mobile revealed that he had sustained a small crack on the right hand side of his lumbar vertebra. Apparently the injury isn’t serious and only requires rest, but this could mean that Barbera may have to sit out the Estoril test like Randy de Puniet.
Talking about his crash Barbera said, “It is a shame, because I think that we could have been in the top eight with the practice pace that we had. I wanted to continue my form from Jerez. It was my mistake, because I maybe overstretched myself. It was just that I had a group of riders in front of me and didn’t want to lose them. I suppose I should have been a bit more reserved, because it was the first left hander and the tyre was perhaps a little cold. The crash was a strange one, because I didn’t get any warning and suddenly I was on the ground. I rode almost the same line on the warm-up lap, and nothing happened then. I don’t know what to think. It was an excess of confidence, because I had never had problems on that corner before the race. I wasn’t even on the throttle when I took it. After I got changed I noticed that my back was aching, so I went to the clinica and got some scans done. It looks like I might have a small crack on the right hand side of a vertebra, but it is something that maybe won’t trouble me tomorrow. The doctors have told me to rest up and come back tomorrow for another examination.”
MotoGP Qatar FP1: Not suprisingly Stoner decimates the field
The 2011 MotoGP season officially kicked off this evening at the Losail race track in Qatar, with the first practice session that will see a four night weekend schedule.
Unsurprisingly enough it was Casey Stoner who dominated the entire practice, leaving the rest of the field to play catch-up and not even making it close. The new Repsol rider set the blistering pace immediately and his 1’55″752 lap easily broke the 1.56 marker, that even team mate and rival Dani Pedrosa could do. Pedrosa ended up second and 0.610s off the timesheet topper.
There were two big and unexpected surprises in the 45 minute session: that Hector Barbera on the Mapfre Ducati who got a tow (something that he does any time he can, which really pisses off the other riders) from Nicky Hayden, that amazingly landed him in third and and just 0.059s from Pedrosa. While the second surprise was the steady climb up the charts from Valentino Rossi who took the fifth spot on his final lap. Much better than he’s shown all through the pre-season tests, evidently the two days off have helped, but it will be interesting to see if the Italian has the race pace to stick at least to Pedrosa, because Stoner is completely out of orbit.
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Aspar presents 125cc, Moto2 and MotoGP 2011 teams
Jorge ‘Aspar’ Martinez for the second year running will have teams in all three classes in Grand Prix racing and yesterday at the “Casa Encendida” in Madrid officially presented his 2011 rider line-up and liveries.
Martinez is able to run six riders thanks to Mapfre who has doubled their sponsorship backing and the entry of Bankia, the new name of twelve Spanish savings banks that were fused together last November and is sponsoring Aspar’s 125cc team.
Continuing with Hector Barbera in MotoGP and in Moto2 with Julian Simon second in the 2010 overall standings, who is teamed up with Javier Fores, reigning CEV Stock Extreme champion who took part in three Moto2 wild card rides last season. In 125 on the Aprilia RSA’s will be Nico Terol, Hector Faubel and Adrian Martin, who recently was signed by the team.
“For the second consecutive year we are present in all classes of the Championship, I’m very proud of this. It’s a great challenge, we are all involved and we always give our best to move forward. We must say thanks to our sponsors as Mapfre, Spain’s leading insurance company and Bankia, the first national bank of Spain,” said Martinez. “I think that we will be successful in Moto2 and 125 in 2011 and we’re aiming at the titles, while in MotoGP with one year of experience we’re aiming for the top ten, and gaining the most points at every race and when possible, the top five. We are an all Spanish team with six riders, almost all of them from Valencia, it’s a great responsibility .”
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